Great Opera Singers

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was born in 1926 in Leningrad. This was certainly not an auspicious time to be born in Russia, for a singer or ...

"Fritz"(Friedrich) Wunderlich was born in Kusel, in 1930, into a musical family. His mother was a violinist and his father a cho...

One of the curiosities of operatic musical nomenclature is the huge number of classifications created for the singing voice, compared to the...

Helen Traubel (1899-1972) was born in St. Louis. She studied singing and made her first appearances in St. Louis as a concert singer with t...

Leo Slezak was born in Schönberg (now Šumperk), Moravia, in 1873. Today, given all the geographical jumble of the intervening years, he is ...

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Had Keats been eulogizing singers, and not G...

It was not fully a month ago when I heard my first recording of Florence Quartararo. It was Handel's "Care Selve." It was as...